Candidate:

Ms. Social Infrastructure

About Me:

I’m a graduate in law & business admin (dual degree), born & brought up in India. I currently work at a BIG4 & in my free time I enjoy watching sports-football,tennis,F1&Motogp & spending time with my niece. I know my gpa(6.5/10) is bad but I was working two jobs to fund my edu- coordinator at NGO & policy expert with parliamentarian (both 5years)

Schools:

Target School: Harvard

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Application Status: Open

Details:

Undergrad School: Top 10 law school in the country

Undergrad Major: law

GPA: 6

GRE: 328

Age: 26, Ethnicity: Asian or Indian

Extracurriculars: Volunteer at a global climate change NPO since 4 years- helped change the sustainability index of many villages in India via hands on help eg building a rainwater harvest mechanism, Advisor to an educational trust- helped tweak the curriculum of a law school, visited schools in small towns with students from LI background to offer them scholarships. helped students find internships.

Work History:

Title: Senior Analyst

Industry: Consulting

Company: Top Firm

Length of Employment: 3 yrs, 2 mos

Title: Advocate

Industry: Law

Company: No

Length of Employment: 1 yr, 1 mos

Big Life Wins:

led an infra project with the agri ministry in India. Helped them draft and now implement a scheme meant to disperse investment worth 140M $ to agri businesses
Strategized operations for India’s largest consumer good comp. Early completion led to increase in scope and earned 42% additional revenue.

Post MBA Goal:

Having worked in strategy consulting for the past year I wish to make it to

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John A. Byrne, P&Q Founder & Editor-In-Chief | Odds Assessment: 15%

Your Big 4 job is good. Your GPA not so good. Especially for Harvard Business School.

Here’s the reality: A recent analysis of an entering HBS class showed this when it came to consulting admits: McKinsey was by far the best employer to have worked for, sending 41 admits directly, while no less than 82 have McKinsey on their resume since graduating form college. By contrast, only 36 came directly from BCG and 27 from Bain. All told, MBB accounted for 104 (11.4%) of direct admits, and 21% of the class had worked at one of these three employers at some point. Among the Big Four there’s a strong showing by Deloitte – 8 admits came direct but 27 have the company on their resume – …

Your Big 4 job is good. Your GPA not so good. Especially for Harvard Business School.

Here’s the reality: A recent analysis of an entering HBS class showed this when it came to consulting admits: McKinsey was by far the best employer to have worked for, sending 41 admits directly, while no less than 82 have McKinsey on their resume since graduating form college. By contrast, only 36 came directly from BCG and 27 from Bain. All told, MBB accounted for 104 (11.4%) of direct admits, and 21% of the class had worked at one of these three employers at some point. Among the Big Four there’s a strong showing by Deloitte – 8 admits came direct but 27 have the company on their resume – and Accenture also scored well (8 direct and 17 on resume).

So this will primarily turn on what you have accomplished as a consultant and whether you have been promoted once or twice at your Big 4 firm. I bet you have.

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